Ray’s Reviews > The Iliad Translated by Samuel Butler > Status Update

Zeus just said to Ares, “Do not come whining here, Sir-Facing-both-ways. I hate you worst of all the gods in Olympus,” (his own son, by the way), and then Hera is out here catching strays cause he says “you have the intolerable and stubborn spirit of your mother Hera.” He ties it all together by saying that if Ares wasn’t his son, he’d be dead for being “so destructive,” and I think that’s wild.